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CHAMPAIGN — Flat. Emotionless. Missing the attention to detail that had been so
high in the run-up to the season.
Not exactly the way the Illini men’s basketball team envisioned its Monday night
season opener against Eastern Illinois playing out. Not on the heels of knocking
off No. 1 Kansas in a charity exhibition game just more than a week earlier.
But that’s the reality the Illini faced. EIU was winning the rebounding battle
and playing with more energy in taking an early lead. Then, Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn
made his presence known. Six straight points and an abundance of energy from the
18-year-old freshman guard in the first half flipped the game. An EIU lead
turned into an Illinois advantage that wasn’t relinquished in what became an
80-52 rout in front of a State Farm Center crowd of 15,014.
“He had a great week of practice,” Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. said.
“You could kind of tell he was going to play good. He always has energy in
practice and is always going hard.”
That practice effort after the Kansas game — where Gibbs-Lawhorn played just two
minutes — was the indicator Illinois coach Brad Underwood needed to know he
might get the type of performance his freshman guard delivered for the Illini
(1-0) against the Panthers (0-1).
Underwood didn’t want Gibbs-Lawhorn to get dejected about how that final
exhibition game played out. The Illini leaned on their veteran players to finish
off the top-ranked Jayhawks.
Gibbs-Lawhorn watched from the bench.
Then the Lafayette, Ind., native spent a week showing why he should probably be
on the court. Illinois always uses its freshmen on the scout team. Underwood has
called Gibbs-Lawhorn “unguardable” in those scenarios.
“I’m going to be careful with Dravyn in terms of how much I’m going to
compliment him because I don’t want him to read it and actually think it’s
true,” Underwood quipped. “He’s a gifted scorer. He can really score it at all
levels. … We saw a little bit of his athleticism on the defense side. When he
quits making silly mistakes on the defensive side, which all freshmen do, he’s
got a bright future.”
Marty Simmons would agree. The EIU coach had a front row seat to what
Gibbs-Lawhorn brings to the court. Energy and effort yielded 18 points on 7 of
10 shooting to go with three rebounds and three assists for the 6-foot-1,
185-pound freshman.
“That dude plays with tons of energy,” Simmons said. “Whether he’s shooting or
not, his pace of play, he runs the floor extremely well. Defensively, he plays
with a ton of energy. I think he adds a lot to their team.”
The other label Underwood tagged Gibbs-Lawhorn with heading into his freshman
season is “not bashful.”
That was evident Monday night against EIU. Illinois had nothing going
offensively until Gibbs-Lawhorn asserted himself. He didn’t hesitate attacking
the basket or pulling up for three-pointers.
“I feel like it’s normal for every person to have little butterflies in their
stomach before the game,” Gibbs-Lawhorn said. “I just try to shut all that out.
I tell myself every game that I’ve played against dudes at this level before.
It’s nothing different from playing in high school other than the physicality.
“Sometimes it’s good coming off the bench because you can get a feel for the
game and how people are playing.”
The been-there, done-that approach is part of a a mindset Gibbs-Lawhorn said was
instilled in him by his dad, Ben Gibbs, who played a single season at EIU, doing
so in the 1996-97 season with the Panthers. Gibbs also coached his son in his
formative basketball years with a style reminiscent of Underwood.
“Most people shy away from crazy coaches, but when I was being coached by my
dad, he was the craziest coach of all time,” Gibbs-Lawhorn said. “Even crazier
than Coach Underwood. I love the tenacity (Underwood) coaches with. When he
starts yelling at me, I love it. It just hypes me up even more. It keeps me
motivated.”
Motivated enough to put together a breakout performance in his official Illinois
debut. The next step for Gibbs-Lawhorn is a continued focus on defense, limiting
mistakes at that and being consistently dialed into the scouting report. Do that
and he might make Underwood’s job of piecing together a rotation even more
difficult.
“It’s just coming out and playing hard,” Gibbs-Lawhorn said, “and providing for
my team.”
Scott Richey is a reporter covering college basketball at The News-Gazette. His
email is srichey@news-gazette.com, and you can follow him on Twitter
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